Divergent Compare/ Contrast Essay In case you didn’t already know, there’s quite a noticeable difference from being shot with a paintball gun, compared to a real gun. Paintball guns kill human beings’ spirits of perhaps winning a game, real guns kill people. “Divergent”, both the novel and movie, is about a girl named Tris who must decide which faction to become a part of in future day Chicago. She chooses to be Dauntless, which also means fearless. She was probably the least likely person to switch from their home faction and become a Dauntless, and must prove to herself and others that she belongs. If that task isn’t hard enough, she also must hide the fact that she is divergent, a rare and dangerous trait to posses in the given society. In the novel and in the movies that share the same title, there are many differences and similarities between the two. Authors of books tend to stretch into …show more content…
Bravery is a huge part of being Dauntless, and of Tris. When new recruits are told to jump off a building into a hole where the ground isn’t at all visible, Tris is the first to volunteer. In both the book and movie, she is the first to leap, and from then on gains the nickname of “the first jumper” (very clever). A second event which occurs in both actually happens throughout the novel and the movie. It is when Tris first finds out she is divergent and is told by multiple different people that being so is dangerous. It’s not until the revolt begins that Tris finds out why it is dangerous, and she finds out at the same point in both the book and movie. Finally, a third similarity is when both of Tris’ parents die. They both are shot during the revolt, but did so protecting their daughter and trying to fight and save the city from the corrupt Dauntless leaders. As a reader or viewer remembers more about the plot of a story, similarities become obvious to